Can't apt-get update with multiple releases in sources.list.

From: Adam Funk (a24061_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/27/05

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    Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:08:20 GMT
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    I've got Debian stable working on a fairly old machine (P2-350, 4GB
    HDD, 128MB RAM, 272MB swap) with the following in
    /etc/apt/sources.list:

    deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
    deb ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/linux/distributions/Debian/ stable main contrib non-free
    deb ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/linux/distributions/Debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

    If I add another mirror of stable to the file, it works. But if I try
    to add testing and/or unstable I get the following error:

    /root # apt-get update
    Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
    ...
    Hit ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/non-free Release
    Reading Package Lists... Error!
    E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
    E: Error occured while processing openbox (NewVersion1)
    E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages
    E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

    I've tried several different mirrors and I always get this problem, so
    I don't think it's a bad file on one mirror. Does this really mean my
    system doesn't have enough memory to process the package lists? 

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Thanks,
Adam
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